Subscribers who get the earliest edition of The Star missed out on the late score of the KU/Baylor game Saturday night. And then there wasn't a box score in today's edition, either.

For those missing it, KU won 100-90.

An e-mailer just offered his belief that the photo of murderer Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton running with this story "is glorifying these sick people who go on shooting sprees." In particular, the reader thinks Thornton's smile is problematic. He advises using no photo at all as an alternative.

The photo desk tells me this is the only photo of him that's currently available. What do you think? Is it inappropriate to run?

A very nice caller I just spoke to is frustrated at items that appear online on KansasCity.com instead of in the paper. In particular, she is upset that a list of Saturday's Kansas caucus locations isn't in Friday's paper.

Editors generally see the Web as unlimited space to post items that can't fit into available space in the paper. But I know that annoys especially those people without Web access. Of course, if you're reading this, you're online -- but maybe you'd prefer to see more listings in print.

At any rate, there will be a list of locations in the paper Saturday, the national

An e-mailer to letters to the editor makes a decent point about a recent Web headline: "Ex-convict found slain near Westport store where he worked."

"I knew the victim and was extremely shocked and saddened that he had been murdered," she wrote. "...I don't see why his criminal record had to be part of the headline. I don't see why he doesn't matter because he has a criminal record."

I'd agree that the fact that the victim served prison sentences in the past didn't need to be in the headline.

In looking at today's Super Tuesday results, a few readers have asked if they're misreading the tables, or is it possible that a candidate can get a higher percentage of the vote, yet still be awarded fewer delegates.

Absolutely that can happen. The reasons are incredibly complex, but suffice to say that the awarding of delegates is something the parties handle internally, and it's governed by a set of rules that vary wildly. As of now, though, I'm not aware of any mistakes in any of The Star's coverage, except for the flipping of Romney's and Huckabee's names in the final chart on Page A-9 this morning.

A reader asks why there isn't a story about the huge turnout at the Kansas caucuses last night. He thinks this is because of The Star's longstanding bias towards Missouri news over things that interest Kansas residents.

The state-line dispute is one I hear about all the time -- though I can assure you both sides sometimes think they're getting short shrift. At any rate, there is indeed a story about the heavy traffic at caucus locations coming for tomorrow. This is the kind of story that's very difficult for reporters to turn on a night like Super Tuesday, when the focus is on getting the latest counts.

An alert reader noticed the word "register" has two different meanings in an item on "How to caucus" Sunday on Page B-2:

"I hope that you will clarify, in the paper, your information concerning the Republican caucuses in Kansas. I fear that the wording 'if you didn't register by January 25, then stay home' will cause many Republicans to do just that. It sounds as if you mean that they should register for the caucus when they needed general election registration. They do not need to register ahead of time for the caucus. I contacted the Kansas Republican party to make sure of this. They do need to present their registration card which states party affiliation."

Twice in the past week, representatives of arts groups have asked me how to pitch a story to the newsroom. As always, I put them in touch with the right reporter.

However, I was shocked when both parties wrote me back (within 24 hours, in fact) to complain that they hadn't gotten any coverage yet -- when ironically, the Features department was already working on a story. In one case, one of The Star's blogs had already gotten a short item up about the group as well.

It takes a bit of time for journalists to put a story together, and the decision about what to cover comes down to the reporter and their assigning editors.

Reader Ashley Martin pointed out a detail that some people might find minor -- but others would see as meaningful.

"I was just reading 'Their Work, Their Wishes, Their Words' in the Feb. 3, 2008 paper on page A17," she writes. "...I think it was a great idea before Super Tuesday to help the voters make their decisions. However, something immediately concerned me while reading. The first words of Hillary Clinton's bio read, 'Yale-educated lawyer.' The first word of Barack Obama's bio was 'Lawyer.' The reason this concerned me was it left the impression that Senator Clinton was the candidate with a better pedigreed law degree. Senator Obama received his law degree from Harvard and was the first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review. This was after he received his undergraduate from Columbia University.

I just got off the phone with a man who'd been mentioned in a story from KansasCity.com, which he found in a search of archives at his library, using the Newsbank database. He wanted to know whether the same article appeared in print.

In this case, no, though he was also mentioned in a similar context in another story that did run in the paper. Many stories appear on KansasCity.com in a format different from how they appear in print. And some will run only one place or the other. That's especially true for wire content, which The Star often doesn't have the rights to reproduce online.